But Zion said, “Yehovah has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palm...
Chap.6:1.]Therefore(on the connexion, see below)leaving(as behind, and done with; in order to go on to another thing. “Jubet omitti ejusmodi elementa, non quod eorum oblivisci unquam debeant fideles, sed quia in illis minime est hærendum. Quod melius patet ex fundamenti simili...
and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; for he will surely be come and will not delay." So runsHabakkuk 2:3in the Sept. Christ's first coming and work
2. Faith chooses the work of life. The Apostle has spoken of the faith that induced the parents of Moses to hide their child three months. Some theologians have set much value on what they term "an implicit faith." The faith of Moses himself would be said by them to be "enwrapped" ...
it is an infinitive form from שׁאל to demand, the demanding, applied to the place which inexorably summons all men into its shade (cf.Proverbs 30:15-16;Isaiah 5:14;Habakkuk 2:5). How should his sons comfort him, when they were obliged to cover their wickedness with the sin...
(what the parallel member brings near) of a bad disposition and design against others, are an abomination to God; but, on the contrary, pure, viz., in His eyes, which cannot look upon iniquity (Habakkuk 1:13), are the אמרי־נעם, words of compassion and of ...
"Naphtali is a hind let loose, who giveth goodly words." The hind or gazelle is a simile of a warrior who is skilful and swift in his movements (2 Samuel 2:18;1 Chronicles 12:8, cf.Psalm 18:33;Habakkuk 3:19). שׁלהה here is neither hunted, nor stretched out or gro...
oneself as that which immediately follows from the being observant; the two perf. 3b, on the other hand, with or without ו, denote the going forward and meeting with punishment as occurring contemporaneously (cf.Psalm 48:6, and regarding these diverse forms of construction, atHabakkuk 3:10...
(compare the dilogy inIsaiah 19:18andHabakkuk 2:7). From the "ear" of the Euphrates down to the Peninsula of Sinai, Jehovah would knock - a great heap of ears, the grains of which were to be gathered together "one by one," i.e., singly (in the most careful manner possible; ...
testimony that they might "believe." For the earth shall be full of the glory of Jehovah (Numbers 14:21), and of the knowledge of Jehovah (Isaiah 11:9), and of the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah (Habakkuk 2:14), as the waters cover the sea. Then Christ shall have come to be...